Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-23
MODERATE DRINKERS.
" What is True of Atlanta should be True
of Sacramento

" w nat Is True OF Atlhutd ShouA- - - -
of Sacramento"
Again was the Metropolitan Theater
crowded last night to hear the renowned
temperance lecturer, Richard I. Booth.
He was introduced by Rev. II. c. Chris
tan, who said the success of these temper
ance meetings was the subject Of converse
ton upon every hand, and the good they
were doing was felt in many hundred
homes in this city. He hoped that every
man who signed the pledge would have
strength to keep it, would thus be enabled
to escape untold miseries and drunkards
grave. He said he perhaps had more rea-
sons to rejoice than any other man IN the
city, for he knew what this demon drink
could do for a fallen man, for he himself
was one of those reclaimed from the saloon
and its baneful influences. When he was
reclaimed his whole life seemed dark and
hopeless. Since then he had devoted his
life to retaining his fellow-men, and he
could count thirty whom he had called
from behind the bar where they were deal
ing out this death-dealing demon, and who
had espoused the cause of temperance and
became followers of Christ. [Applause]
Seven years ago he was pastor OF church
in Atlanta, Ga, a city of 60, 900 souls, filed
with saloons and drunkards. II any man
had told him then that they
WOULD SOME DAY HAVE SOBER CITY,
Without saloon in it, he would have set
that individual down as exhibiting all the
signs of insanity. That prediction has
come true, and to-day that city, with three
times the population of Sacramento, has
not a saloon in it; its people are happy,
prosperous, temperate. Applause.l What
is true of Atlanta should become true of
Sacramento, and these meetings have
opened a campaign which means the capt.
ulation of the liquor dealers in this the
capital of our State. Applause.
When Mr.. Booth advanced to the foot
light he was greeted with a round of APP
plause by those who had been listening to
him nightly for the past two weeks. As
the meetings progress there is a marked
attendance of young men, and older ones,
too, who take the pledge for the good it
will do Men who have not drawn sober
breath for twenty years up to the time
they took this pledge now occupy front
seats nightly, and seem proud of their
badges of blue.
The speaker said that at P. NJ. to- day, at
the Westminster Presbyterian Church,
there would be an extra attraction to their
usual prayer meeting. A large committee
of Christian men and women would be ap-
pointed to canvass the entire city and wait
upon
EVERY LIQUOR DEALER AND sALooN-KEEPER,
And give them an invitation to be present
at the meeting to be held on next Thurs
day night, when he intended delivering
special lecture for their especial benefit.
He was going to talk to and at them.
The speaker then took up the subject,
1.-THE Moderate Drinker," and said it was
hard indeed to impress upon the occasional
drinker the fact that it is bad morally and
physically. The liquor traffic be held to
be a crime, to be immoral, and to drink
sin. He said no one could define mod
crate drinker 1t was somewhere between
a thimbleful and bucketful. Can you do
any good by abstaining? Of course you
do. Go home tonight and read James
w., II: Therefore to him that knoweth to
do good, and doeth it not, to him it is a
sim" Those words are in the holy book,
not my language, but that of the living
God.
ARE YOU DOING ALL YOU CAN
To save the drunkard and keep others from
drinking2 When you go home tonight,
take down your Bible and read Proverbs,
Al.s Il. L Will lOl QuOtC IL pul lcJ YOU
read it for yourself. TIf the memory of
the reporter serves him, the Scripture re.
ferred to runs something like this He
that is void of wisdom despiseth his neigh
Dor but man of understanding holdeth
his peace.
He said that some of the saloon,keepers
loved to quote Scripture, especially that
where Paul advised Timothy to take some
wine for bis stomach's sake. He said a
saloon keeper was standing in his door
way one day, when he saw an Irishman
passing with a blue ribbon on his shirt.
He accosted Pat, and after asking him,
pointing to the blue ribbon, what he had
gone and made fool of himself for, in
vited him in to take something. Pat very
politely declined, and pointing with pride
to his badge, said This says must not"
" Oh come along" said the mixer re-
member, it is written in Scripture that Paul
said unto Timothy, take little wine for
thy stomach's sake" Well" replied
Pat, "you amt Paul, amt Timothy, and
my stomach don't ache"
The speaker closed his lecture with
STRONG APPEAL TO THE MODERATE DRINKER
To join the pledge and give up the cup. If
you are drinking whisky to-day, you are
drinking that which has been the ruination
OF N any as gOOu Il man dS you are. NO
man who drinks at all is secure. Remem-
Der that the drunkard, every man who has
filled drunkardis grave, at some time in
his life was at the very stage at which you
are tonight. He continued, and fell. You
can sign our pledge tonight and be saved.
The subject of the lecture tonight will
be Prohibition" to which all the Christian
people of the city are specially invited.
On Friday night Mr.. Booth will deliver
one of his special lectures, The Magic
Crowd or the countries l have visited and
the people l have SEEN.
At the close of the meeting "a came for
ward and signed the pledge, and 81 blue
ribbons given out. Total to date Ribbons,
1902 pledges, 5S4.